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語源

From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus. By surface analysis, indicate +‎ -ive.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈdɪk.ə.tɪv/

形容詞

indicative (comparative more indicative, superlative most indicative)

1. Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something.

   He had pains indicative of a heart attack.

   • 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29:

     Although it may be convenient within the case study publication format to cover the topic of pseudopathology in the discussion of differential diagnosis, this is not indicative of how this stage of work slots into the diagnostic process in the laboratory.

2. (grammar) Of, or relating to the indicative mood.

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名詞

indicative (countable and uncountable, plural indicatives)

1. (grammar, uncountable) The indicative mood.
2. (grammar, countable) A term in the indicative mood.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 253:

     The fact that imperative forms were taken into English as indicatives suggests that the English speakers using the Hindustani verbs were most familiar (in some cases perhaps only familiar) with the imperative form.

派生語

Further reading

• indicative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia